Images of Mary Tudor

Mary Tudor was the only child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. "Bloody Mary" is to me a complex figure who is much derided by some historians and in pop culture--though revisionism is in the wind.

La Peregrina Pearl: The Dutch painter Hans Eworth painted this portrait of the Queen Mary Tudor wearing the La Peregrina. a year after her coronation. Over the succeeding generations Spanish queens including Margarite and Isabel wore the pearl

Mary Tudor, Mary I of England, portrait miniature attributed to Lucas Horenbout, c. at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Perhaps the earliest surviving English portrait miniature.

Queen Mary I of England and her husband, King Philip II of Spain by Hans Eworth - original is in the Bedford Collection, Woburn Abbey, England - interior scene of the royal couple with Mary seated beneath a coat of arms and Philip standing beside her.